Shapovalov Backhand Quotes & Sayings

Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention? — David Richards

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion. — Lucretius

[Nietzsche thinks artists undersexed]:
"Their vampire, their talent, grudges them as a rule that squandering of force which one calls passion. If one has a talent, one is also its victim; one lives under the vampirism of one's talent."
Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Camille Paglia's "Sexual Personae — Camille Paglia

I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks. — Cheryl Rainfield

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life. — Ruben Dario

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time. — Dustin Hoffman

Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about. — George W. Bush

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people. — Thomas Sowell

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. — Samuel Richardson

Most people are far more prone to let the bad experiences shape their views than the good ones. — Rick Joyner

You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction. — Annalee Newitz

Are you a mortal being? Then you are an unsuccessful being! — Mehmet Murat Ildan